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restlessness
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Noun
restlessness (usually uncountable, plural restlessnesses)
- The state or condition of being restless; an inability to be still, quiet, at peace or comfortable.
- She sat and fidgeted out of restlessness as she waited.
- 2024 March 11, Madeline Holcombe, “What to do on the nights you are struggling with insomnia, according to experts”, in CNN:
- A feeling of restlessness and an urge to move in your arms, legs or torso is a state of hyperarousal and can keep you from a good night’s sleep, she said.
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state or condition of being restless
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References
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “restlessness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
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